[DanaC]

What the French did under the Nazis has no bearing on the current situation in Iraq. Apart from anything else the cultural differences are vast enough to render any such comparison facile.

'evil people' galvanised to fight on one side and 'good people' galvanised to the other.....nothing like the crude simplifications of a Hollywood story to facillitate solutions in one of the most politically and socially complex areas of the globe.


As an interesting aside. Do you take much notice of the place names on the map? Nineveh and Nimrud, Baghdad and Babylon. These names, some of which are older than any of our written histories. Nineveh fell, and one of the ancient world's greatest empires with it, in 612 B.C. Next the Babylonians and the Medes, the Achaemenid Persians and the Macedonians, Romans.....and on across two thousand and more years. The culture of Iraq has some very deep roots.